Men, and all recollections of any male symbol, had ceased to exist. attitudes and also her undoubted sense of humour, I wondered too what Monique Wittig would or could write next.In fact she strode over the dead bodies of men and devoted her next book to the female body and to relationships, especially the love-relationship, between women. After reading and relishing it, wondering if in some way it could be termed a 'conceit', trying to assess the author's. A few retreating male critics and readers uttered hoarse cries or crude words but most of them were impressed by the book's originality and the poetry of its language, even if the concepts behind it were hardly likely to please them. the only work of beauty to come out of Women's Lib.'The schoolgirls had vanished and these girl guerillas, 'pearl-tressed, two-breasted Amazons', beautiful, brilliant and deadly, despatched the race of men and any belief in crude, automatic male supremacy. Five years later came Les Guerilleres, published with the admiring support of Mary McCarthy, who found this second novel 'a surprise, almost a shock. The poetry of its present-tense narrative and its evocative word-building immediately caught the attention of the critics and the novel with its schoolgirl heroines enjoyed a succes d' estime. Abstract: INTRODUCTIONIn 1964 Monique Wittig, who was then 28, won the Prix Medicis in France with her first novel, The Opoponax.
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